Climate scientist admits lying to obtain 'Denialgate' docs
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A prominent climate scientist, well known for his outspoken condemnation of climate scepticism, has admitted that he was the individual who recently leaked internal documents from rightwing think tank the Heartland Institute. Peter Gleick said he obtained the documents by using "someone else's name" in "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics".
Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat
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A prototype fingerprint scanner has been developed that can detect the presence of opiates, cannabis, or cocaine in the sweat on a user's fingertip.
NASA tells Voyager 2 to save its strength
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Voyager 2 is conserving energy by using its back-up thrusters as it continues to boldly go where no spaceship has gone before.
New pics of giant black sphere hurtling toward Earth
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A vast, inky black sphere approximately the size of a nuclear aircraft carrier is plunging through the void of space towards planet Earth, though NASA rather panickily insists that it will definitely not smash into our planet with devastating force.
New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle
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The US Army has announced successful tests of a new, lightweight portable machine-gun which fires special plastic ammunition. The gun and ammo are so much lighter than current weapons and their brass-cased cartridges that some soldiers are suggesting that every infantryman could in future pack the sort of firepower reserved today for heavy-weapons specialists.
